Create your Manage GPL account

Manage GPL is a free-to-start service — you don't need a credit card to create an account, and the Free plan lets you connect up to five WordPress sites immediately.

Sign up

1. Go to managegpl.com/register.
2. Enter your name, email address, and a password (minimum 8 characters, anything you like beyond that).
3. Click Create account. You'll be signed in automatically and land on your dashboard.

There is no email confirmation step — the account is active immediately, and you can start adding sites right away.

What you get on the Free plan

• Up to 5 WordPress sites connected at once.
• See which plugins and themes are installed on each site and which are outdated.
• One-click updates for WordPress.org plugins and themes, and for the Manage GPL connector itself.
• Manual site health checks (view only).

Paid plans add premium plugin/theme updates (via GPL Times), bulk one-click updates across all sites, activity logs, uptime monitoring, and whitelabel branding. You can upgrade whenever you need those features — nothing is locked behind a trial.

Secure your account

As soon as you're in, we strongly recommend enabling two-factor authentication. Your Manage GPL account has access to all your connected WordPress sites, so a compromised password would be costly.

See the Enable two-factor authentication article for a step-by-step walk-through.

Your first site

From the dashboard, click Add site. You'll be offered two connection methods:

• Automatic — give us your wp-admin login once and we'll install the connector for you.
• Manual — download the connector plugin, install it yourself, paste the pairing token.

Either one leaves the same end result: your site connected, inventory pulled, and updates ready to run. If the automatic flow fails (2FA on wp-admin, CAPTCHA, HTTP-auth on the site, REST API disabled, etc.), fall back to the manual flow — it works on any WordPress install.

What happens next

Once a site is connected, Manage GPL pulls its inventory of installed plugins and themes, compares versions against our update catalogue, and shows you what's outdated. No cron runs on your WordPress site — we refresh inventory on demand when you open the site's dashboard page, and you can hit the Refresh button any time.